News

16 October 2017

Volunteer Dundee celebrated the 2016-2017 achievers of the
Volunteer Friendly Award for excellence in volunteer management at a Civic
Reception hosted by the Lord Provost where awards were presented to 20 groups
who had achieved or renewed the award by Deputy Lord Provost Bill Campbell.

30 April 2015

ACVO are delighted to announce that Absafe has been awarded the prestigious Volunteer Friendly
Award.

Absafe work to advance safety, stop accidents
and save lives. Their vision is to create a safe and happy North East community
and last year it opened the interactive education centre, The Safe. Volunteers
are a vital part of this in helping to teach people, of all ages, about the
importance of safety in an engaging way.

The Volunteer
Friendly Award is an important quality standard
developed and co-ordinated nationally by Volunteer Centre Dundee/Voluntary
Action Scotland and delivered locally by ACVO, Aberdeen’s Third Sector Interface.
The Award recognises charities and community groups who are
excellent at involving volunteers, lead best practice in volunteering and
enables the Third Sector to continue to offer good volunteering
opportunities/experiences.

It supports volunteers in making a fantastic, essential and valuable
contribution to people and communities in Aberdeen. Through achieving the Volunteer
Friendly Award Absafe has shown the strong commitment they have to their
volunteers and in continuing to develop volunteering within the organsiation.

Emma
Bellu, Chief Executive of Absafe, said ‘We’re
pleased to be recognised and awarded this accolade from ACVO. We’d like to
thank all our volunteers for their ongoing support and dedication in helping us
to create our vision of The Safe. Without their efforts our vision might not
have been realised.’

Mike
Melvin and Liz Howarth, Volunteer Friendly Assessors at ACVO added ‘Absafe makes an essential contribution to
improving safety in the North East and it is wonderful that Absafe has achieved
the Volunteer Friendly Award. It is further great testament to the superb work and
dedication of staff and volunteers at Absafe’

Joyce
Duncan, ACVO Chief Executive stated ‘volunteers are at the heart of all that
is good - with a staggering estimated 7.5
million hours of help contributed every year by volunteers in Aberdeen. This achievement
for Absafe is fantastic news and reflects the outstanding contribution and
difference volunteers make day in day out in Aberdeen.’

05 March 2015

Aberdeen Cyrenians are the latest recipients of Volunteer Friendly Award in Aberdeen.

The charity was assessed by Aberdeen Council of Voluntary
Organisations (ACVO) on behalf of the award organisers late last year
and has subsequently been praised for its commitment, time and value it
gives to volunteering.

Scott Baxter, depute chief executive of Aberdeen Cyrenians, has paid
tribute to the charity’s pool of volunteers. He said: “Aberdeen
Cyrenians is delighted to be named as a recipient of the Volunteer
Friendly Award.

“This award is a great opportunity to recognise the key role
volunteers play in Aberdeen Cyrenians. Their support is truly invaluable
in helping us run our important and necessary services across both
Aberdeen and the north-east.”

Mike Melvin, Volunteer Friendly Award assessor at ACVO, said:
“Aberdeen Cyrenian’s submission for the Volunteer Friendly Award was of
an exceptional high standard and reflects the great commitment and value
the charity gives to volunteering.

Volunteer Friendly has been developed by Volunteer Centre Dundee with funding from the Dundee Partnership Fairer Scotland Fund. Volunteer Friendly (Scotland) is funded through the Big Lottery Fund in Scotland, through the Supporting Voluntary Action Programme being administered by SCVO (the Scottish Councilfor Voluntary Organisations).